Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine
Stark Neuroscience Research Institute
Sangha Lab
razzle dazzle provided by M. Pollock
Recent interview with Dr. Sangha by Psychopharmacology regarding the lab's 2023 paper on alcohol and stress effects in safety discrimination (Hackleman et al 2023).
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Newest publications from the lab:
Fitzgerald JM, Webb EK, Davis K, Bennett M, Benjamin T, Pegau B, Sangha S (2025). PTSD symptoms moderate predictors of psychophysiological arousal during fear inhibition: Evidence from a fear, reward, and neutral discrimination task. Journal of Affective Disorders, in press.
Sangha S*, Fitzgerald JM (2024). Translational Approaches to the Neurobiological Study of Conditional Discrimination and Inhibition: Implications for Psychiatric Disease. Behavioral Neuroscience, 138: 244-259.
Krueger JN, Patel NN, Shim K, Ng K, Sangha S* (2024). Conditioned inhibition of fear and reward in male and female rats. Neurobiology of Learning & Memory 208: 107881.
Ng K, Pollock M, Escobedo A, Bachman B, Miyazaki N, Bartlett EL, Sangha S* (2024). Suppressing fear in the presence of a safety cue requires infralimbic cortical signaling to central amygdala. Neuropsychopharmacology, 49: 359-367.
Susan Sangha, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine
Stark Neuroscience Research Institute
What we do
Clinical disorders arising from maladaptive emotion regulation present a large burden on society worldwide and many of these disorders show comorbidity, for example, addiction with anxiety disorders. Even though there has been much research on reward and fear processing, the majority of studies have been conducted in parallel, investigating the neuronal circuitries separately. Our lab uses a behavioral paradigm designed to assess how safety cues can regulate fear and reward seeking behaviors in male and female rats. We hope by investigating how safety, fear and reward circuits integrate their functions to influence behavior, we will be able to better understand and treat disorders resulting from maladaptive emotion regulation.